Category Archives: World

KINGSTREE, S.C. - A world away from South Carolina’s booming coastal resorts, hundreds of homes remain unrepaired in the county hardest hit by last year’s floods. Now they’re getting...

SAO PAULO - In Brazil’s biggest city of Sao Paulo, the leading mayoral candidate is a businessman who once fired people on air during a television reality show. In the country’s crown jewe...

TOMS RIVER, N.J. - Almost four years after Superstorm Sandy pummeled his neighbourhood so badly that Britain’s Prince Harry had to stop by for a look at the damage, Paul Jeffrey is ready to slee...

EL CAJON, Calif. - Alfred Olango, the unarmed black man shot and killed by police in a suburb of San Diego, will be remembered in a demonstration Saturday organized by clergy members and supporters of...

NEW YORK - Ever hear about the gargantuan octopus that dragged a New York City ferry and its 400 passengers to the river bottom nearly 53 years ago? A cast bronze monument dedicated to the victims of ...

BEACH HAVEN, N.J. - Police say a 59-year-old man who wore a bikini fashioned out of see-through plastic wrap on a New Jersey beach is facing a criminal charge. They say Stephen Wojciehowski spent two ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan - Pope Francis praised Azerbaijan on Sunday as a model for a world divided by violent extremism, sidestepping criticism of the government for the sake of encouraging religious toleran...

BUDAPEST, Hungary - Muslims in Hungary say they are wary of the government’s anti-migrant referendum this weekend, which polls suggest has boosted xenophobic feelings. The government, contending...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistani cinemas have stopped showing Indian films after India banned Pakistani actors from its movie industry amid soaring tensions between the two nuclear-armed rivals over Kashmir, cin...

California regulators have changed course and opened a pathway for the public to get self-driving cars of the future that lack a steering wheel or pedals. It’s not going to happen immediately - ...